Both mathematics and dance are languages that use symbols to convey ideas and expressions. Mathematics uses written symbols to represent abstractions so that users can arrive at a greater understanding of a problem without ambiguity. Dancers use...

Folk dance is a term used to describe a large number of dances, mostly of European origin, that tend to share the following...

Lined up inside plastic boxes, the index cards are dog-eared, some of the writing smudged from years of use. But these are no ordinary recipes that Dan Pearl carries. Pearl, a Southborough resident, is a caller for folk dances. The cards remind him...

ON A VISIT to Budapest a few years ago, I had the good fortune to stumble upon a performance of Hungarian folk dance, performed by local university students at an out-of-the-way community center. The three-hour show was packed - people lined the aisles to...

Igor Moiseyev, who transformed folk dance into a legitimate genre of choreographic art that won worldwide acclaim, died Friday in Moscow. He was 101.Moiseyev had been unconscious for the past three days and died in a Moscow hospital, said Yelena Shcherbakova, director of the Moiseyev...

Ursula Vaughan Williams, who wrote librettos for her composer husband and produced his biography, has died at age 96.She died Tuesday in London, Gwen Knighton of the English Folk Dance and Song Society said Thursday. Vaughan Williams, who was president of the society, had been...